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What is the tea-picking drama (tea-picking drama in southern Guangxi) like?

Tea-picking drama in southern Guangxi was introduced into southern Guangxi from southern Jiangxi via northern Guangdong in the middle of Qing Dynasty, with a history of about 400 years. Tea-picking opera is also called "DuDu Duck" according to the characteristics of its lining words. Tea-picking operas in southern Guangxi are widely spread in Yulin County in southeastern Guangxi and some counties in Qinzhou, Wuzhou and Nanning. ? Tea-picking drama in southern Guangxi belongs to "Three Little Dramas", starring Xiao Sheng, Xiao Dan and Clowns, also called "Triangle Class". At first, it was a song and dance singing with "tea picking in December" as the main content, and then on this basis, plots such as land reclamation, tea ordering, tea exploration, tea picking, tea frying and tea selling were added, forming a whole set of songs and dances reflecting the labor and love life of tea farmers. Generally, one person plays the tea master and two people play the tea mother during the performance, and some life scenes with plots are interspersed in the song and dance. Singing historical stories or folklore in tea-picking dramas in southern Guangxi is called "gathering tea to tell the past", mostly comedy and farce. In addition, there are some plays influenced by color tones, such as Selling Red Lines, Selling Gouache, selling groceries, Cutting Wood to Marry a Wife, Shaving Your Head to Borrow a Wife, and Marrying a Wife in Spiritual Practice. Later, due to the influence of the Cantonese troupe who took refuge in Guangxi after the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, some dramas such as Overturning Yuanyang, Gao Wenju and Chen San Mo Jing appeared in the tea-picking drama in southern Guangxi, and the overall style changed greatly, so it was no longer an early tea-picking drama. The main accompaniment instruments of tea-picking opera in southern Guangxi are gongs, drums, cymbals, wooden fish, suona, flute and erhu, and there are ribbons, money whip, flower fan and handkerchief. Its aria, first, tea cavity, that is, the original set of tunes for picking tea; The second is to insert tea, which is based on Nanchang Xiaoqu and Four Seasons Lotus and absorbs folk songs from all over the country. The singing language is mainly Hakka dialect, supplemented by ancient sayings, and most of them rhyme in white. ? Tea-picking opera in southern Guangxi is full of singing and dancing, lively and enthusiastic, with strong local characteristics. It is closely related to the cultural life and aesthetic taste of the local people, and its artistic and cultural value has been unanimously recognized by the whole world. In 2006, tea-picking opera (tea-picking opera in southern Guangxi) was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.